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Harrison Mills, Ohio

12 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1911 and the latest in 2002. It stands in Harrison Township. It lies in ZIP code area 45653. It lies in Bearwallow Hollow. The Survey maps it on the Minford quadrangle.

Harrison Mills within Scioto County

Then and now

1911 to 2002

The same ground, surveyed 91 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

Topographic sheet of Harrison Mills, surveyed 2002
Topographic sheet of Harrison Mills, surveyed 1911

Compare 1911 against another survey:

Topographic sheets covering this place

12 sheets

Matched by testing this settlement's coordinate against the published boundary of every sheet in the United States Geological Survey's historical collection. Each opens the scanned sheet at the Survey.

In the 1903 county history

4,598 words on this township

The county history of 1903 has no passage naming this settlement, which was common for the smaller places. Its township is covered in full.

The chapter on Harrison Township covers the township.

Read the chapter on Harrison Township - 4,598 words.

Fires nearby

27 since 2004

The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 27 fires within 5 miles of Harrison Mills between 2004 and 2020, burning about 309 acres in total. None started naturally. 1 was recorded as arson. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a fire counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Reported cause Fires
Missing data/not specified/undetermined13
Debris and open burning12
Smoking1
Arson/incendiarism1

The most recent of them, most recent first, with the day each was reported and the service that recorded it.

DateCause SizeReported by Name on the report
17 July 2020Smokingunder an acreOhio Department of Natural Resources15785
2 May 2018Missing data/not specified/undetermined6.0 acresOhio Department of Natural Resources13865
6 April 2013Debris and open burningunder an acreOhio Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
6 April 2004Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreOhio Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
24 April 2008Debris and open burningunder an acreOhio Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
23 April 2008Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.5 acresOhio Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
2 April 2013Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresOhio Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
2 April 2007Missing data/not specified/undetermined7.0 acresOhio Department of Natural Resourcesnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Scioto County

Specimens collected nearby

12 of 397 shown

Museums hold 397 specimens collected within 10 miles of Harrison Mills between 1885 and 1975: 289 Animalia, 93 Fungi, 12 Plantae, 2 Protozoa, 1 Unrecorded. 12 distinct Species records are shown. Collected by ?, A.P. Morgan, A.P. Morgan; L.V. Morgan and others. Each is a physical object with a catalogue number, and each entry opens the museum's record. This is what was collected and kept, not a survey of what lives here - nothing can be concluded from a species being absent.

Image SpeciesYear Collected by Where, as recorded
Specimen of Bovistella MorganBovistella Morgan1885A.P. MorganPreston
Specimen of Cylindrocladium scoparium MorganCylindrocladium scoparium Morgan1893A.P. MorganPreston
Specimen of Polyporus dryadeus (Pers.) Fr.Polyporus dryadeus (Pers.) Fr.1925G. T. JonesMill Hollow, Vermillion River
A photograph of the species Harpographium fasciculatum, not of this specimenHarpographium fasciculatum (Sacc.) Sacc.1887A.P. MorganPreston
unnamed1897MorganPreston
A photograph of the species Sialia sialis, not of this specimenSialia sialis (Linnaeus, 1758)1897Henninger, W. F. (Walther Frederick)South Webster, Scioto, Ohio, USA
A photograph of the species Sturnella magna, not of this specimenSturnella magna (Linnaeus, 1758)1897Henninger, W. F. (Walther Frederick)South Webster, Scioto, Ohio, USA
Philohela minor (J.F.Gmelin, 1789)1898Henninger, W. F. (Walther Frederick)Bloom Switch, Scioto, Ohio, USA
A photograph of the species Planesticus Bonaparte, not of this specimenPlanesticus Bonaparte, 18541898not recordedSouth Webster, Ohio, USA
A photograph of the species Sayornis phoebe, not of this specimenSayornis phoebe (Latham, 1790)1898Henninger, W. F. (Walther Frederick)South Webster, Ohio, USA
A photograph of the species Sphyrapicus varius, not of this specimenSphyrapicus varius (Linnaeus, 1766)1898not recordedSouth Webster, Ohio, USA
A photograph of the species Baeolophus bicolor, not of this specimenBaeolophus bicolor (Linnaeus, 1766)1899not recordedSouth Webster, Ohio, USA

All 397 specimens within 10 miles, at the Global Biodiversity Information Facility.

Mines and quarries nearby

3 within 5 miles

The federal mineral resources record lists 3 workings within 5 miles of Harrison Mills: 2 past producers, 1 occurrence. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Iron, Aluminum, Silica, Titanium. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Where SiteCommodity StatusRecorded
Sciotoville ClayIron, Aluminum, Silica, TitaniumOccurrence1861
South Webster PlantSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast ProducerSedimentary
South Webster PlantSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer

Every working recorded in Scioto County

Nearest settlements

The eight closest, with where each one stands in the county. Distances are straight-line, computed from the Geographic Names Information System coordinates.

Map PlaceDistance Sheets
Egypt0.9 miles12
Wallace Mills1.9 miles12
Pinkerman2.1 miles12
Frederick2.2 miles12
Wheelers Mill2.2 miles12
Edmunds Switch3.1 miles12
Gephart3.2 miles12
Scioto Furnace3.2 miles12

Elsewhere

Matched on this settlement's Geographic Names Information System number rather than its name, so it cannot be a different place of the same name in another state.

Wikipedia article on Harrison MillsAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q23698475The structured record the population and elevation above come from. Public domain (CC0).

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 1076018. The sheet list is computed by point-in-boundary test against the United States Geological Survey's historical topographic inventory. Both are works of the United States government and carry no copyright under 17 U.S.C. 105.

Wildfire. Short, Karen C. 2022. Spatial wildfire occurrence data for the United States, 1992-2020 [FPA_FOD_20221014]. 6th Edition. Fort Collins, CO: Forest Service Research Data Archive. https://doi.org/10.2737/RDS-2013-0009.6 Collected with United States Government funding and usable without additional permissions or fees.

Specimens. Global Biodiversity Information Facility (GBIF), https://www.gbif.org/. Only records licensed CC0 or CC BY are used. Records licensed CC BY-NC are excluded because this site carries advertising. Images are checked individually and any whose licence is non-commercial, no-derivatives or unreadable is refused.

Mines and quarries. USGS Mineral Resources Data System (MRDS) https://mrdata.usgs.gov/mrds/ A work of the United States government, no copyright under 17 U.S.C. 105.